After a twenty-one-year stint as associate editor and editor of a religious publication aimed at a lay audience, Martin McHugh has turned to full-time freelance editing to keep himself busy.

He earned a master’s degree in ancient Greek history at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana and worked as a director of a graduate dormitory and as a commodities broker in Dallas. These experiences are in part responsible for his knowing all kinds of arcane but sometimes useful information, such as that there are nine, not three, Muses and what exactly a “spread” is in the silver market.

He turned to editing and publishing, working at Southern Methodist University Press in Dallas and Company magazine in Chicago before putting out his freelance editor shingle.

He lives in Chicago with his wife, Dorinda, a Texan, and their sons, Alex and Damon.